Nacemiento has my: Ray Ban sunglasses (ever notice how long you can hang on to cheapie sunglasses?), a Mercury propeller wrench, a brand new marine deep cycle battery and a mud anchor.
So I'm running across the lake at the end of a long day of goofing around and the wind comes up like a mother...There were literally white caps...The boat starts to slow up but the engine speed is increasing

Apparently lost the hub on a prop (Bravo I cruiser), so I grab the spare prop and throw the anchor out (in the middle of the lake) so I can change the prop. I hang over the back of the boat and remove the old prop and get the spare on and go to tighten the nut and "kerplunk", the wrench goes over....

So I got the prop tightened with an adjustable knuckle ripping SOB.

We go to take off and I forgot about the damn anchor (was already pissed about the wrench so this really pisses me off) and I grab my hat and go to throw it under the deck and my shades were on my hat..."kerplunk"

....So FOCK it! we head back to the campground and figure I'll write the rest of the evening off and enjoy some frosty adult beverages and have some BBQ...

Unfortunately it wasn't over...Our freinds boat would not start and he had to move it around into the cove because of the hurricane force winds and the battery was shorted, sooooo I go grab the one week old deep cycle from my boat to get his started and move it. Easy right? WRONG! as I'm sitting on the transom, I go to grab the battery and set it in the boat, it slides right off the newly waxed surface right into the friggen lake..you got it..."kerplunk" yet again, it was in about 15' of water, so I go and get a ski rope and go down to tie it off to bring it up and it was getting dark as hell, found it, tied it off, brought it up, dead as a door nail

Fook me! LOL
Now I carry a 20' set of jumpercables, cheap sunglasses, my new prop wrench floats

, and I always tie the anchor rope end to the steering wheel so as not to forget.

Thanks for the memories

GT